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written by: Peter Cowlam
Reports of a fracture come I know
as more in those endless variants
from a new schismatic group,
whose island is mid-estuary.
What they map, they say, is the ‘mental
meteorology’, the state of physical or tensile
us, who as time ticks on are in the qualms
of our own upsetting. It’s true they can,
through the fibreoptic nerve of news,
within nanoseconds have us all worrying,
and worrying.
They don’t care for my polemic (all my neat
arguments ranged against them),
my fullest dialectic, as that absorbs
political fire, political lacerations. Away,
I say, these who sully our centuries
(for let us begin our life of integrity): away!
I know, I know, I know
I can’t quash this social pestilence.
I just know.
Peter Cowlam's latest poetry collection, 'Ghosts in the Machine,' is a CentreHouse Press parallel text, original poems in English alongside their translations into Italian. Translations by the distinguished translator Angela DAmbra. His latest novel is the political satire 'That Was Hugo Blythe MP,' published in both hard and soft cover by AN Editions. Peter Cowlam has won the Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction twice, most recently in 2018 for his novel 'New King Palmers,' which is at the intersection of old, crumbling empires and new, digital agglomerates. His novella 'A Forgotten Poet' has been produced as an audiobook, narrated by the noted operatic baritone and voice actor Charles Johnston. Peter Cowlam is a former Literary Editor at Ars Notoria.
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- News Agency - July 11, 2026
